Oʻahu

Oahu English Proper noun en Oahu. en 2005 John Ralph Kukeakalani Clark Beaches of Oʻahu A Latitude 20 Book revised Honolulu, Haw. w:University of Hawaiʻi Press back cover https://books.google.com/books?id=u_ZbHX0wKtIC&pg=PT2 0-8248-2892-5 This essential guide to Oʻahu’s beaches begins at Ala Moana Regional Park and continues counter-clockwise around the island—the traditional route most visitors and residents take when touring the island’s scenic points. en 2010 w:Patrick Vinton Kirch Sources for Reconstructing Contact-Era Hawaiʻi How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawaiʻi Berkeley, Calif. w:University of California Press chapter 2 (Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact) 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=wuqxd88MLYkC&pg=PA31 978-0-520-26725-1 Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than David Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi. en 2019 Sumner La Croix Voyaging and Settlement Hawaiʻi: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change Chicago, Ill. w:University of Chicago Press 30 https://books.google.com/books?id=HhyIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 978-0-226-59209-1 Palynology—the science of plant pollen, spores, microscopic plankton, and their fossils—has made a particularly important contribution to our understanding of how and when the first generations of Oʻahu people transformed their environment as they settled the island. Hawaiian Etymology Probably a corruption of haw o ahu (cognate with rap ahu), thus [place] of an altar or platform. Pronunciation Proper noun haw proper noun haw island s/Hawaii c/USA Oahu Descendants en Oahu 1 1